Cold wind whistling across tiny sets at midday.

Hello Friends,

Had to run an errand around lunchtime, so I stopped by Long Reef to see if I could detect any sign of the expected swell. There were a few bods in the water, but the wind was icy and strong, and worse, the waves were about as small as it’s possible to surf. It’s a metre out at sea from the south and the period’s decreased to a touch under 6 seconds.

The only hopeful sign has been an increase in the period from 6 to nearly 8 seconds at the Eden buoy even as the swell down there has gradually risen from around a metre yesterday to a couple metres now.

On the current set of readings I think it’s safe to say that we won’t be getting much of anything before nightfall in the Sydney region. There might possibly be the odd forerunner set, but I think I’ll be keeping the powder dry for tomorrow morning. That said, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on proceedings and will update if I spot anything of interest. Maybe Hendo’s call will be better than mine on this one!

Looks as though we’ll have pretty windy conditions to kick off with tomorrow, but with luck as the day goes along, it’ll throttle back to something a bit more reasonable.

Here’s the Bureau’s call:

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale warning.
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: W 25/35 knots, reaching 35/40 knots offshore. Turning SW during the morning. Close inshore winds W 20/25 knots early morning.Sea: 2.5 to 4 metres. Swell: SE about 1 metre, increasing to S 3 to 4 metres tonight.
Thursday: Wind: S/SW 25/35 knots, easing to 20/30 knots later. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres.Swell: S 3 to 4 metres.
Friday: Wind: SW 10/20 knots turning W’ly 5/15 knots

The oily rag we run this site on is pretty dry this week, so I’m going to experiment with a sort of tip-jar concept. Below you should see a little form that allows you to buy us a symbolic cup of coffee. It offers the security of paypal and I’ve set the amount options into what I hope is the affordable range. Been a long time since we’ve done any fundraising, so I wonder if any of you good folk will feel inclined to participate. Naturally I’m interested in any thoughts you may have re this sort of thing.